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Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. ...

As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent ...

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired ...

For almost four billion years life had dawdled along without any detectable ambitions in the direction of complexity, and then suddenly, in the space of ...

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many ...

She was going to discover new things, when she didn't need to learn anything more - all she needed was patience.

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then ...

Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him ...

I didn't know anything about acting, much less about acting in a comedy.

A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take ...

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him ... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a ...

You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful ...

I think there is this thing where people are impressed - it gives you a leg up in the sense that people won't treat you ...

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm ...

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think ...

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it ...

And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red ...

Monsters serve both to mark the fault-lines but also, subversively, to signal the fragility of such boundaries.

Dare to exhaust yourself with all the opportunities this day offers.

I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable ...

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Jesus Christ ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed ...

The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, ...

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable ...

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with ...

Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. ...

I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in ...

Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like ...

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A ...

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

I still promise. Every day for the rest of my life. I'll hold your dreams, wishes, hopes and fears forever. I Promise to never give ...

The goal is always the same: to break a skill into its component pieces (circuits), memorize those pieces individually, then link them together in progressively ...

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our ...

If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who ...

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

Ah yes, the dreaded one-way system ... He and Nancy had laughed later, imagining Dante redesigning Purgatory into a one-way system offering occasional glimpses of ...

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Twilight whippoorwill ... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't ...

Why does the brave druskelle Matthias Helvar eat no meat? 'Tis a sad story indeed, my child. His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious ...

Hidden within the heart of every man is that small boy who shudders at those dread things who shuffle among the shadows

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself.""The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark ...

Time travel. No one said it was going to be easy.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and ...

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to ...

You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. ...

Never forget a customer. Never let a customer forget you

He is not here to help me with this; you must take his place.'Ducon started to speak, faltered. He stared at her, the bruise on ...

Everything is an echo of something I once read.Dream, hope, and celebrate life!Love always comes back in a song.One thing we all have in common ...

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

We may say with some confidence that the most apparently beneficent products of science and industry should be held in suspicion if they are costly ...

My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy ...

When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You ...

You don't have the right to blame others for your own mistakes..

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.

Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end ...

A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

This was why mothers were so obsessively, consumingly, drivenly, and yet somehow narcissistically loving of you, their kid: the mothers are trying frantically to make ...

Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There's a ...

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

You play on the ice... you get what you should get.

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting ...

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.

Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier ...

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist ...

Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer ...

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with ...

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they ...

Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.

Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be togetherforever.

In Maths, we are learning about mixed factions. They call it Divergent.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we ...

If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over ...

When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted ...

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

POE DAMERON'S first ship was his mother's RZ-1 A-wing.

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated ...

Anne-Marie Costallat, born October 8, 1944. I was beginning high school and masturbating twice a day, curling over it like a dead leaf, when she ...

The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have ...

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has ...

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.